 | English literature - 1868 - 602 pages
...correctness, have been saved out of the wreck and ruins of ancient Philosophy,' Agricola declares them to be ' short sentences into which, as in rules, the ancients have compressed life.' Quaint Thomas Fuller defined it ' much matter decocted into few words;' and James Howell 'a great deal... | |
 | English literature - 1868 - 600 pages
...correctness, have been saved out of the wreck and ruins of ancient Philosophy,' Agricola declares them to be ' short sentences into which, as in rules, the ancients have compressed life.' Quaint Thomas Fuller defined it ' much matter decocted into few words ; ' and James Howell ' a great... | |
 | James Comper Gray - 1880 - 416 pages
...shortness and correctness, have been saved out of the wreck and ruins of ancient philosophy."— Aristotle. '»Short sentences, into which, as in rules, the ancients have compressed life." — Agrícola. "Well-known and well-used dicta, framed in a somewhat out-of-theway form or fashion."—... | |
 | Eliezer Edwards - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1882 - 684 pages
...correctness have been saved out of the wreck and ruins of ancient philosophy.' Agricola describes them as ' short sentences, into which, as in rules, the ancients have compressed life.' Cervantes, with his usual terseness, describes them as ' short sentences drawn from long experience.'... | |
 | Frederick Edward Hulme - Proverbs - 1902 - 290 pages
...on account of its brevity and fitness for use," and in like strain Agricola declares proverbs to be "short sentences into which, as in rules, the ancients have compressed life." Cervantes puts this yet more pithily in his definition, " Short sentences drawn from long experience."... | |
 | Frederick Edward Hulme - Proverbs - 1906 - 288 pages
...on account of its brevity and fitness for use," and in like strain Agricola declares proverbs to be "short sentences into which, as in rules, the ancients have compressed life." Cervantes puts this yet more pithily in his definition, "Short sentences drawn from long experience."... | |
 | Child psychology - 1898 - 646 pages
...correctness, have been saved from the wreck and ruin of ancient philosophy." Agricola declares them to be "short sentences into which, as in rules, the ancients have compressed life.'' Thomas Fuller defines a proverb as '' much matter decocted into few words." James Howell, "a great... | |
 | Child psychology - 1898 - 656 pages
...correctness, have been saved from the wreck and ruin of ancient philosophy." Agricola declares them to be " short sentences into which, as in rules, the ancients have compressed life.'' Thomas Fuller defines a proverb as " much matter decocted into few words." James Howell, "a great deal... | |
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short sentences into which, as in rules, the ancients have compressed life 